► 形容動詞
滅多 [(1)めった] [coll] meaning: ordinary rank: 2
☆ 彼は滅多なことでは驚かない ⇨ Ordinary things won’t surprise him. It will take something extraordinary to surprise him
滅多 [(1)めった] [滅多に～ない] [coll] meaning: rare rank: 2
☆ 滅多に怒らない彼が激怒した ⇨ He who rarely gets angry, went berserk
☆ 私は外食は滅多にしない ⇨ I rarely eat out
More examples:
- 私はいつも自炊して外食は滅多にしない ⇨ I always cook myself and rarely eat out
- 私達は滅多に遠出しない ⇨ We rarely go far, leave our house for a long time
- そんな美味しい仕事は滅多に無い ⇨ There are few cushy job like that
- 私達が家を空けることは滅多に無い ⇨ We rarely leave our house without anyone
- ここまで親切な人は滅多にいない ⇨ There are very few people who are kind to this degree
- 彼はヤクザに滅多打ちにされた ⇨ He was beaten to a pulp by gangsters
- そういう事は滅多に起こらない ⇨ Things like that rarely happen